Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Army-Navy game. The game should have been played a week earlier, but it had been pushed back out of respect for recently slain president John F. Kennedy.
The ships, including USS Constitution, were created to fight "Algerine corsairs," also known as Barbary Pirates.
The instant replay has been a staple of sports broadcasts ever since its debut in the 1963 Army-Navy football game ("Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again!" CBS announcer Lindsay Nelson had ...